Story Wise Woodend

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Sue's brilliant and hilarious "long bow" story of fire that takes place in a girls catholic school. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Russell Yardley's story of kiln fire. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Peter Fernon tells a gripping story about an Australian bushfire, make sure you stick around for the end where you get a deeper understanding of the trauma of what bushfires can cause. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Nicole Jacks tells an amusing tale of having to fire someone, several times.. to make sure they are fired. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Kate Lawrence story on youth, smoking, fire, never admitting fault and forever wanting to grow up fast. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. France Palmers compelling story not quite about bushfires, but about fires non the less. 

Third episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Christine Hardiman's fantastically told story from her youth of one particular incident of her seven year old sister dangerous playing with their dads fire arm in one memorable car ride. 

Second episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Barbara Crljen tells a brilliant story of fire on her property. 

First episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. Anna Redenbach's story is one of a metaphorical fire within. 

In this first story from Tania Christiano, she shares a touching tale with a different spin on the notion of place, a place at the Christmas table.

Kate Lawrence shares a heart felt story of place, the place she lives in the Macedon Ranges and her exploration of the original inhabitants of the land.

Malcolm Duffield spins a wonderful story connecting his first political act with Brexit, a 6 month trip lasting 30 years, and a bridge to nowhere. 

Preeti Helena gives away her Swiss origins with her accent, and takes us on a journey through her relationship to place and to wandering, ending back on the slopes of a postcard Switzerland.

Sue Yardley regales us with evocative descriptions of growing up in the coal-choked Morwell of the late 60’s.  Her story centres on the centrality in summer,  with its characters and drama, of the local pool.

In the first of the stories from the Story Wise Woodend night where the theme was place, Russell Yardley takes us back to his country Victorian childhood in Ellinsford in the 50’s and 60's, a time of ferrets, travelling salesmen and thruppence for third in the school races. 

Kate Lawrence shares a story of the pain of finding yourself inexplicably on the wrong side of the line of ones own integrity.

Peter Fernon tells a story of land boundaries in a small country town in Victoria, and the tensions and characters it reveals.

In this 3rd episode in the 3rd season of Story Wise Woodend Podcast, we hear a story from June 2016, where the theme of the night was Boundaries.   Jackie Kerin shares a moving story of being drawn to assist a young man in crisis, and the shared humanity she experienced.

Kate Lawrence, host of Story Wise Woodend, shares the tale of an epic journey across three states, with her dad and his not ‘normal’ approach to life. 

Teena Hartnett tells an awkward tale of way too familiar family tension in the unbidden yet unbreakable connection to relatives.

 Russell Yardley shares a story of family intrigue and serendipitous discoveries spanning the globe.

This week, Nicole Jacks, a Woodend resident tells a rolling, high stakes story of the epic family holiday on Fraser Island.

This is the first episode from the stories told at the May 2016 Story Wise Woodend where the theme of the night was Family.  Christine Hardiman, a Story Wise Woodend regular tells a moving story of love, set in the stately homes of England during the war, and the tragedy of a heartbroken unknown soldier. 

In this weeks episode Melvyn Cann shares recollections and reflections from the orchestra pit where the violinists are tricking everyone it seems.  

In this episode Kate Lawrence shares the story of a long car ride with little children, made more interesting by an April Fools trick.

In this episode, Kyneton resident Ian Robinson takes us back to the Olympic Village in 1956 Melbourne, with a story about a problem with language.

Another great story from local storyteller Peter Fernon, told in Woodend in April 2016, where the theme of the night was 'Tricks'.

This is a wonderful story from Milly, a yoga teacher from Kyneton and the episode is another step towards paring down the podcast,  with less talk and more story!

This episode's story is the first story from the storytelling night in march 2016, where the theme was 'Missing'.  It is a story from Nellie Mollina, who travelled a long way, in more ways then one, to share her story. 

Finally, the second season of Story Wise Woodend.  Now in smaller, one story episodes, easier to listen to on the go. The first story in this season is from the Story Wise Woodend event in February 2016, where the theme of the night was Eclipse of the Heart. We hear a wonderful story from Cassis Lumb, about the agony of unrequited love..

In this tenth episode of Story Wise Woodend we hear stories from two experienced storytellers, from Melbourne, who travel to Woodend to support the event.  In serendipitously related stories, Teena Hartnett remembers her Dad and Jackie Kerin her grandmother, both told in February 2016 where the theme of the night was Eclipse of the Heart.

This weeks episode shares a terrific story from Jackie Kerin, including her curiosity as to what story 'they' tell about what happened.  And Susan tells a story of an unlikely solution doctors find in a situation of modern medicine.You can find Jackie Kerin here. 

From the December 2015 night, where the theme was Endings, a story from Cassis about a perfect ending, followed by an end of childhood, great yarn from Anne Stewart.You can find more about Cassis Lumb here. and Anne Stewart here. 

Still on the theme Race Against Time, Melvyn entertains us with a new craze in walking, while Bec races to catch a strange train in a strange land.You can find out more about Melvyn here: https://melvyncann.com/and Rebecca Colless here: http://www.rebeccacolless.com/

Peter Fernon brings together ephemeral images to create a moving story from childhood in this first of the episodes where the theme is Race against Time.  He is followed by Teena Hartnett, with her trusty canine friend Atticus, telling a story about their adventures in St Kilda.

This is the last of the four episodes sharing stories from the first Story Wise Woodend event in October 2015, where the theme for the night was Firsts.  Melvyn Cann, who has become a regular at Story Wise Woodend over the last 12 months tells of his experiences teaching.   This is followed by a surprise story from Gill Jewell, in direct response to Melvyn's story.   

A gorgeous story from Christine Hardiman, who has also become a regular at Story Wise Woodend, begins this episode. She shares many funny and delightful images from the streets of Melbourne.  The second story is from Teena Hartnett, a seasoned storyteller with an easy style, telling a story about getting a house.

In this episode Peter Fernon touches on some of the major male milestones and how they can play out in unusual ways. The second story is from Woodend local and Story Wise Woodend regular Susan Davie, who as an ex-nurse, has a wealth of stories.

In this episode we hear two stories from the first night of Story Wise Woodend, in October 2015.  The theme of the night was Firsts.  Jackie Kerin tells a powerfully moving story with many connections to country, and Kate Lawrence, host of Story Wise Woodend, shares a story with a twist as she grapples with a wild adolescence.You can find out more about Jackie Kerin here:  http://www.jackiekerin.com.auand Kate Lawrence here: http://www.storywise.com.au/about/

A brief introduction from Kate Lawrence about Story Wise Woodend and her passion for personal storytelling.